Supercool · 2026-06-10 · 35 min
While companies across the construction industry were raising prices because of tariffs last year, Wythe Windows did the opposite: it lowered prices on high-performance, energy-efficient windows. Even more striking, Wythe manufactures them 20 miles from Midtown NYC. Darren Macri came to construction after film school at NYU and built the first passive house in New Jersey. That project exposed the bottleneck: getting the right windows in the U.S. meant importing them from Europe through middlemen, and when orders arrived wrong or incomplete, there was no one local to call. So he started making them in his hometown of Ramsey, New Jersey. Today, Wythe ships coast to coast for projects ranging from high-end new construction to affordable housing retrofits in places like the South Bronx, where better windows mean an immediate quality-of-life upgrade: lower energy bills, quieter rooms, cleaner air, and greater comfort. Now Darren is pushing the same idea further: from high-performance windows to high-performance retrofits for entire buildings.
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